2024 Summer Barbecue

at the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary

Sat., July 27th – 4:30 to 8:00 p.m.

Bring the family and friends and join us for this special occasion: dining on the lawn, a used book sale, live music, evening walks around the marsh, a brief program and door prizes. Our menu will include, freshly grilled hamburgers, hot dogs, vegetarian burgers, salad, chips, watermelon, cake, lemonade, iced tea, soft drinks, and coffee.

We are determined to be more environmentally friendly by reducing the paper waste, trash, and single-use items going to the landfill. Place settings will be available, but we encourage you to bring your own reusable cup, plate, cloth napkin and silverware. We thank you for your support.  A scrape/rinse station will be available, and we happily accept volunteers to help us staff them.

Advanced reservations for the Summer BBQ are essential so we can know how much food to buy. To register and pay for your tickets, go to the seaandsageaudubon.org website after June 1 and look under WHAT’S NEW to find the Eventbrite registration link.  Tickets for the barbecue and program are $25.00, children under 5 are free; tickets for the BBQ volunteers are $20.00. Everyone will need to pick up their meal ticket at the Welcome Table when they arrive. 

Activities begin at 4:30 pm when the Used Books Sale opens. Dinner will be served from 5:00 to 6:00 pm. A guided marsh walk begins at 6:00pm that will take in the sights and sounds of evening marsh life. At 7:00pm  we will introduce our 2024 Bloom- Hays Award recipients. We will not be hosting a speaker this year, in order to avoid the mosquitoes that arrived last year, as we were waiting for dark, in order to use the big screen. The evening will conclude after door prizes. 

This event is staffed entirely by chapter volunteers! If you can help us out in any capacity, we would really appreciate it and you will save $5 on your barbecue ticket!

For information on volunteering, contact Gail Richards at;  agrich@me.com.